skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing that is driving entrepreneur celebrity culture is the
confusion of raising funding and building a revenue positive business.
Fund raising is a newsworthy event that 's easy to write about and
already has an array of narrative hooks that can be applied to
it. It's easily digested by tech news ecosystem that has in many cases
explicitly rejected any pretension of journalistic objectivity in
favour of boosterism and participation in the money cycle that they
are hypothetically supposed to be explaining to their readers.

As an event fundraising has a certain level of glamour in that it
brings together important and powerful people; or people who would
like to think they are important and powerful which is much the same
thing as far as the protagonists are concerned. It's easy to fall into
the scenesterism and the recurring characters (the foul-mouthed VC,
the bright eyed fresh faced first time founders, the once successful
entrepreneurs trying desperately to recapture the magic) and forget
that underlying it all are supposed to be actual, unglamorous
businesses that are solving problems for paying customers.

To some	extent Silicon Valley is ripe for disruption, but that's
mostly because it seems	tired compared to what it once was. The
positive qualities of Silicon Valley culture, the can-do optimism, the
inventiveness, the piratical willingness to upset the apple-carts of
the established	order have been	supplanted by an orderly narrative of
programmed success that	can pull people into creating "disruptive" companies
that are just better ways to pull eyeballs to ads. For a social	group
that talks about innovation, it's amazing how narrow the definition of
innovation can seem.

Real innovation	has moved on from the valley, it's happening in
marginal places	where the creativity has to do with making better use
of limited resources, it's going to be messing up orderly narratives
of social media	success	and creating new products that rebuild the
value chain in all industries.
"What's to stop someone else from doing the same thing?"

No different than what happens now. When your wallet gets stolen you call the credit card companies to cancel your cards.

Yes, sometimes when you order a sandwich you don't want to pay for it immediately, and sometimes when you get close to your car you don't want it to unlock. But those times are the exceptions. The exceptions are the times that you should deal with a more complex interface. The other 99% of the time it should do the right thing automatically.
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What could possibly make the comet, which is very, very small compared to the moon, be that bright?

The tail, which is very, very big compared to the moon.
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I don't necessarily mean firing people (though there are some who really aren't good fits for this work). I mean I see better work from people who literally lose sleep over bugs, rather than merely shrugging.
I lived in my van for about 6 months after I graduated from college in Portland, OR. I spent part of that time up in Alaska, working in the fisheries (unloading fish from boats with a great group of guys) and the rest of my time in Portland trying to find places to park overnight in the city and trying to get back to a more stable life.

There were good things and bad things. It definitely simplified my possessions and when I was in Alaska I could basically park my van anywhere overnight. But when I got back to Portland, it was a lot harder to find places to park where I wouldn't get harassed.

I used my college (as an alum) gym showers and spent time in parks. This was 1996 so I wasn't too worried about internet connectivity and there definitely weren't any free wifi hotspots ;)
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> Except in severe depression, antidepressants have no clinical advantage over placebos:

ECT can have a much better effect in these cases.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/electroconvulsive-therapy/M...

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-57400793-10391704/ele...

And, it turns out, antidepressants can help ECT:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090706161300.ht...

But keep in mind that ECT is only for crisis-level severe depression:

> ECT uses an electrical stimulus to the brain to induce seizures. It is prescribed for patients with crisis-level severe depression – who are catatonic (people who are so slowed down that they stop moving, talking and eating) or suicidal – or for patients with major depression who have not responded to medication.
A friend of mine did this in LA for a couple years and paid off his school loans. He worked for a company that had a full kitchen and showers, so he was able to use the office frequently for those necessities.
These are the types of CSS articles we need more of on HN; functional, simple and UX-friendly. Thanks for your awesome write-ups Ivo.
And there is always the Jet powered beer cooler : http://www.asciimation.co.nz/beer/

So now you can cook things or freeze them :-)
Also, google "jam jar pulse jet." I made one in about 5 minutes last summer. Lot of fun, but scary when you realize it's a hot flame contained in a glass jar.
It might be the part you cut out. GP mentions "life and livelihood," so its possible he's had success as an iOS developer.
Unlikely but not impossible. Note that the substring does NOT need to repeat in the uncompressed file; it just needs to be possible to say "copy bytes X through Y of /bin/ls here" in fewer than Y-X bytes. I'd love to know what the odds really are, but it seems like you have some good options for improving them (e.g. ask for a really huge input file).
Heard about this years ago. It's cool, but also quite sad. All these thousand or so manufactured just to be thrown out in one or two weeks, never again to see the light of day?
> But technically, he was required to send Mike his files and decompresser. Instead, he put them on his server and sent Mike their location. Mike then had to get the files. It goes both ways.

In that case Patrick could just argue he hadn't sent the files at all (since Mike refused to accept them by refusing to download them) and that therefore the bet was still on, so he can still send the files by email or whatever.
F2fs: introduce flash-friendly file system 
Samsung's new filesystem to NAND flash memory-based storage devices.
Stop Building Mobile Websites
Everything is replaceable or at least thats how the saying goes. I think the point being made is that if Facebook/social media disappeared that it would barely make a dent in how we live compared to if Amazon/e-commerce or Google/search disappeared. At least thats how I interpret it.
It's more the principle of requiring additional information after a reservation has been booked instead of being up-front about it, and sending it over unencrypted email.

The biggest issue is that I responded to their original email within 24 hours, but have now waited 10 days without resolution or any feedback.
> you might find that bytes 1000-2000

On average, even if you have the specific file to work with, encoding those numbers, namely 1000 to 2000, will cost at least as much space as the lengths of the sequence you find. So it would be possible to do this, but the sequences would be so short, and offsets so large, that you'd end up losing.
You're essentially acting as a hotel business. I'm not sure you can do that with the level of anonymity you require to a legal corp like airbnb to remain legit. You may have unreasonable expectations. Try something even more underground next time I guess. There probably isn't anything they can do.

But yeah, I suppose listing it more clearly would have been nice :) (and better communication, something most tech startups need to learn to scale)
In their research, Duman and others show that in a series of steps ketamine triggers release of neurotransmitter glutamate, which in turn stimulates growth of synapses.

MSG is monosodium glutamate, and there is research to show MSG is toxic -- it's the glutamate that's bad for you, not the sodium. Flooding your body with excess glutamate throws off the brain's delicate balance of this neurotransmitter and leads to excitotoxicity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excitotoxicity).

The blood-brain barrier protects you from some of it, but the blood-brain barrier is not fully formed in babies, and this is why MSG not allowed in baby food. However, the blood brain barrier can be weakened by any number of reasons in adults, such as when you have a fever.

Why would ketamine's release of glutamate be different and good for you in this case?
A Better Way to Learn How to Program
History is not so simple as this guy points out. Jobs had a significant impact, no doubt.
People like Carnegie were not so nice, nor Rockefeller, Edison, Khan, Atilla the Hun. However, history remembers these people just fine, for good and bad.
I believe it's quite normal to see the good and bad in people, because in reality that's how we all are. Jobsy left on a high note, turned Apple around. He will be remembered - and fondly, might I hazard a guess.
New Myspace is a completely different service
I was hoping this would involve some sort of crazy energy transfer like cavitation heating or something. Still a neat project, but I'm sure there are better things to do with a functional pulse-jet.

This led me to wonder: what's the fastest (and at least hypothetically non-widespread-destructive[1]) method of boiling a kettle-sized volume (say, 1.5l or so) of water[4].

1.5l * 4.2kJ/l/K * (100 - 20)K =~ 500kJ energy required.

Exactly what sort of (practical) coupling achieves the most effective transfer is the purpose of the challenge.

Thoughts?

[1] in the spirit of the George Goble[2] approach to BBQ ignition optimisation using liquid oxygen[3]

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._Goble

[3] http://www.humournet.com/collage.archives/collage096.txt

[4] Trickery involving reduced pressure to achieve low-temp boiling are considered cheating. I"m not sure what the benchmark pressure would be though, since you'd probably want a high-pressure heating vessel in case you overshoot and vaporise it.
This.

It's an absolute joy to type on a Thinkpad keyboard. I haven't tried the new "chiclet" one that's been introduced, so I really hope that haven't ruined it.

The ThinkLight is also brilliant - much better than a backlit keyboard IMHO.
If anything, I'm surprised they allowed you to rent out your place without that verification in hand. There is enough possible legal/liability quandaries around the idea of AirBnB that is seems risky to sanction the rental of a place without confirmation of the owner's identity.
i would not want to send my photo id over the internet either, they should announce before any transaction has taken place that this is a requirement
I have 340 Facebook friends (I feel like this is on the middle-lower end of typical). I scrolled down several "pages" on my timeline and saw zero evidence of any those people --- who are predominantly friends and family, or people I went to high school with --- were playing anything like Farmville. Most updates on my timeline are people sharing pictures of the city they're visiting, or of their kids.

All of these people could, instead of sharing details of their lives with their friends, instead be spending time on 4chan anonymously grinding out memes. I gather from this post that I am supposed to feel bad about that.

Meanwhile: in a major city in the US, in a market dominated by the likes of McDonalds and Walmart, your odds of successfully starting a small business that depends on a retail channel are significantly worse than 50/50. Most people don't get a shot at starting any kind of business like that, and only a vanishingly small few get multiple bites at that apple. Yet I can use Facebook today to find out about meat specials at my butcher, or someone selling artisanal pickles, or a new theater company, or someone making custom knives as their hobby hoping to try to make a living doing it. And because of the stupid blue "like" button this article rails against, these hopeful businesses can do that without paying for pointless terribly-performing ads in major newspapers or on radio stations, and can have actual conversations with their customers. And again, I gather from this post that I am supposed to feel like this is a bad thing.

So I guess I'm saying: I'm not getting the author's point.
You could be right. I've been drinking black tea no milk/sugar for 10+ years, no kidney stones yet. Which would make me superhuman, and I'd like that possibility even if it is quite slim.
Read through http://sass-lang.com/ because of your comment and just wow. Awesome.
Wait, are you sure it's airbnb and not citimortgage?
Why inflation is not theft
Of the three I would recommend the Software Craftsmanship Group. There's beer, and last year we did a intense scotch tasting.

Plus it's technology agnostic (although samples tend to be in .NET because Knoxville), it focuses less on technologies and more on technique.
If the comet is much smaller than the full moon, then its surface will be brighter than the surface of the moon to still be of higher magnitude in brightness than moon.

Magnitude is total visible luminosity of the body. Think of it as a logarithmic value of lumina. Total amount of visible light from that whole body that is visible to an observer on earth.
> it just needs to be possible to say "copy bytes X through Y of /bin/ls here" in fewer than Y-X bytes

It is very unlikely that the length of the sequence will be smaller than the space required to store X. Your plan is similar to saying "The input could contain long repeated segments containing only zeroes. Compress those using scheme Z. The longer the file, the more likely this is to occur.". Information theory allows us to prove that this cannot always work. In fact it is very unlikely to work for a specific randomly generated target file.
I'm a little shocked that you overcame all of the other concerns of using AirBNB but balked at a failed firefox plugin. I'm sure there's a logical explanation and probably a little bit of mismanagement on behalf of AirBNB, but that's something that can be corrected.
I think you were right to avoid sending that info because that's an identity thief's gold mine. On the other hand, I wonder how many times airbnb has been scammed. Hopefully this is some kind of knee-jerk reaction to problems they are having and not just an unprovoked screw up.
Writing this on my work-issued W520. Absolutely lovely machine.

It's a workstation class laptop that isn't huge (like the equivalent Dell) and doesn't roast my legs (like the equivalent Dell).
Parking for Nobel laureates only
It's amazing what some companies ask you to send via email. The inherent trust people put in email systems is honestly scary. envex seems not worried if someone has their eye color or height. I can promise you every bit of information someone can obtain on you IS useful.

Dear AirBnB,

Sending utility bills and drivers licenses over email is NOT appropriate!!!

This makes me want to pentest AirBnB and find their vulnerabilities before someone evil does....
It sounds like their customer support failed you. Whatever tool they were using to track your email thread failed or someone acted too hastily and responded to the thread inappropriately by asking for the same information. You are right they made a mistake in sending you two emails and it is annoying they are holding your money.

I have no inside information about Airbnb, but I'd guess they are slowing moving the money to try and prevent fraud on their system. Basically, A stolen card being used for a high value amount. Obviously that is annoying to anyone who is waiting for money, but I've seen it happen in many situations where money is transfered.

Are you a frequent hoster? If you have a lot of money coming in for your apartment, it is much more likely that it would be transfered quickly.

If you are a frequent hoster, is this a unusually large amount at once? Or is it from someone who is using Airbnb for the first time?

In the end, it sounds like your experience wasn't so great. But I'd hope you remember that it is just people on the other end answering your email and trying to prevent fraud. Many of those people answer hundreds of emails a day and probably make mistakes as often as anyone else. I hope everything works out for you.
Yeah, Adam Curtis for me is one of the greatest living documentary makers. Probably tied with Errol Morris...
> Facebook ... produces nothing of value

> If Facebook disappeared tomorrow, nobody would give a shit.

There are plenty of people who would give a shit. You may not be one of them, but there are countless people who rely on Facebook to communicate with family members on the other side of the globe, or share their private pictures and memories with their loved ones, or just to keep in touch with friends who no longer live nearby. If that's not one of the best definitions of value, by touching people's lives where it matters to them the most, then I don't know what is.

You may not use Facebook for any of those things, and that's fine, but when a billion people log into Facebook every month to communicate with their friends and family, you can't possibly think that your usage is indicative of everyone else.

Facebook doesn't need to produce new knowledge or culture to provide tangible, long-term value.

http://www.facebookstories.com/
Please come break my web app.
Envex, if you are not worried about this sort of thing. How about you go follow @ewconsultors on twitter. Dare ya...
The only problem for being a programmer in 40s and 50s is that it is really hard to find a job. This pretty much the only problem, but I guess that is a big problem :(
(1) You refer to your "apartment", which by convention refers to a domicile that you are leasing. While other HN readers will contest this point, I'd be willing to put money on the fact that you violated your lease by renting out your apartment on Airbnb at all.

(2) HN is not a forum for complaints about YC companies, and while I didn't flag this post, you shouldn't overreact if it is killed. Nobody is trying to censor you; if it happens, just move your post to Tumblr.
For a tech company, common sense would require to make the founders liable to the debt, otherwise they can pay themselves a good salary -with the money borrowed to the bank - and then bankrupt the company.

For this reason - as well as other reason people here already mentionned - the banks won't lend so much money to a young tech company.
I have to agree with pretty much all of your points.

Securing Patient Identifiable Data should be near (if not at) the top of the list of priorities. Some API where data can be requested which only returns non-PID data would probably be the way forward, but there will certainly be cases where there is a need for certain data that will be identifiable.

I'd probably say that NHS staff don't need to learn how to code, but should instead work much closer with those who can.

As in an "insider" there is an endless list of services that could be improved with software if we could just open our doors slightly.
In some ways, I think of jobsy as a great filterer - very focused. Both of your statements are somewhat true if you consider that perspective. Jobsy made a big difference by picking the best and putting it together. However, what was put together was largely taken from others.
Fickle? Maybe - just not as one dimensional as it may first appear to be.
However with Rails being an opinionated framework, there is typically one really publicized opinionated way to do one thing (ala Python style).

Perhaps so, but as with Python that way changes over time.
Yah. I currently work for the NHS as a developer. Don't even get me started on this place - inefficiency upon inefficiency. Printers? holy cow, we've just installed "follow me printing" and because it was badly communicated and thought out, we now have several departments who can't print a damn thing because they are waiting on a pass code so they can set up their swipe card to allow them to print. Did I mention there is only 1 machine in the building that you can use to set up your card for printing? aiya.

Kelsey? I'll believe it when I see it - I tried to get hold of him informally a while ago about his coding4health...I got crickets.
I don't think it is possible to die early. To die young, perhaps.
That's probably true, as indicated by the order they arrived on the scene. Social media is at a more rarified level of need. But to jump from there to saying nobody would care? I could say that computers are useless compared to, I dunno, the wheel, therefore no one would care if computers went away. Would you say that rhetoric is useful? Personally, I think not.
Also submitted yesterday. That would explain the ? at the end of the url.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4609321

Not complaining though; this article is definitely worth a read for those that missed it the first few times around.
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Adafruit Open-source Raspberry Pi WebIDE alpha released
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My goto source for bit hacks.
Yeah, there's the SVR "pipe" concept, where you attempt to fit the margin s.t. points are close to it. It's a great alternate use of SVM's obj. function optimization.

I haven't really used SVRs aside from some exploratory work, so I can't speak too much about them. But I know they exist!
Oookay, that's just insane.

I think I might try it.
Lore Sjoberg, all-around awesome and hilarious guy (anyone remember the Brunching Shuttlecocks?), is in a van. A random recent post: http://loresjoberg.com/view/monkeyconversation/
Negative Developers and Team Stability
Thanks.
I must say I do not put a lot of faith in that study after reading about their method. Firstly the sample size is too small. They had 20 people, 2 of which become suicidal.
Secondly, they compared two antidepressants against each other, but did not have any placebo.

I would advice against drawing any strong conclusions from this.
Actually, many of the tiny house floor plans are designed to fit on a flatbed trailer. Not as easy to manage overnight parking as a van, but pretty feasible.

http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/blogs/tumbleweed/5912813-tra...
We're working on a follow-up blog post soon with more detail.

Bootstrap has a lot of great UI components - form styles, tabs, dropdowns, etc. It looks good, it's consistent, and easy to prototype. But our client work involves highly customized design. In those cases, we don't want the Bootstrap styles, just the functionality.

But overriding Bootstrap styles can be painful. Let's take a form input field. You start by overriding the base style. But you forgot about hover and focus states, so tack those overrides on too. Then add any media query specific overrides. Do the same for any Bootstrap component you used. Finally, make sure your overrides work cross browser.

Building multiple sites with Bootstrap (and likewise Foundation) has definitely made us more aware of costs associated with customizing styles.
They made a pretty bad mistake with the 256 ram only. It just can't handle it. (Iphone4 has 512)
I explain the weighting in the right-side. Each lie is on a scale of 1-5, based upon the source, where "true" is a 3. So, a weighted lie means that a 5 is worth more than a 4. Whereas, an unweighted lie means that a 4 and a 5 are the same.
If you can't reason about your objects in isolation, how can you expect to reason about them in aggregate?

I don't use my objects in isolation.

Maybe I can mock up some factory which creates model objects outside of my persistence mechanism, but what value is that? I care that when I create an object in response to an action from a real user the persistence mechanism produces the correct object.

I happily bulk load testing data into my persistence mechanism for testing purposes, but I see almost no reason to mock it for tests.